Tag: anti-LGBTQ

The Atlantic just published an article entitled “The Struggle for Gay Rights Is Over” in which James Kirchick, a gay journalist and visiting fellow at the Brookings Institute, provides a historical overview of the gay rights movement while making lazy, over-broad and untrue generalizations about what the gay community’s socio-politcal aims should be. Before we delve into the dumbest of his ideas, here’s his disclaimer about the title of his article, lest you think him completely bonkers: “The end of gay...

The San Jose city council vows to fly LGBTQ Pride flags near the eatery. Rainbow flags may fly at a new Chick-fil-A scheduled to open next month at a California airport. San Jose LGBTQ community leaders and other concerned residents attended a city council meeting this week to protest the Chick-fil-A location under construction at Mineta San Jose International Airport, citing the fast food chain’s continued donations to anti-LGBTQ organizations. Last year the council approved and announced a new contract with Host...

The students at Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey, were not having it when demonstrators showed up on their campus holding anti-LGBTQ, anti-women and anti-Muslim signs. According to the university’s online newspaper, The Whit, one of the signed held high read, “Warning: homos, whores, porno freaks…Muslims, drunks…obey Jesus or hellfire.” Charming. At the time, a social media post went out among students which claimed the demonstrators make their appearances on college campuses around the country in an attempt to make money. The social...

Two individuals are in custody in connection with the stabbings, which is not suspected to have been motivated by anti-LGBTQ hatred. Two individuals were stabbed at the Fort Lauderdale Gay Pride Festival on Sunday. The stabbings occurred at 6:30pm near the main stage, and two people have been taken into custody in connection with the attack, said Officer Casey Liening, a spokeswoman for the Fort Lauderdale Police Department, WPLG Local 10 reports. “We believe this was an isolated incident, which began as...

His appearance was at the Trooping of the Colour’s for the Queen’s birthday. The Queen’s new openly gay personal footman, Ollie Roberts, made his first public appearance yesterday. During the Trooping of the Colours, Ollie was sat behind the Queen on her carriage. Ollie is 21, from Wales, and has served with the armed services in the past. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44_kcy3GdTU The Trooping of the Colours is an annual event that celebrates the Queen’s birthday. During the ceremony, the Queen goes down The Mall in...

We posted this article originally in January, but it seems that everyone is talking about it again as Coachella time is here. Coachella tickets are going on sale today (at 3 pm EST) and some big names like Beyoncé, the Weeknd, Eminem, and more are going to be performing. But, Perez Hilton, of all people, wants to shine a light on the homophobe behind the scenes before we buy our tickets. Hilton shared on his website that fans of the annual music...

A parody of a book about Mike Pence’s family pet has become a bestseller. The Vice President and his family have just released a children’s book based on their real-life rabbit Marlon Bundo, which was written by Pence’s daughter and illustrated by his wife, second lady Karen Pence. But their foray into the world of publishing may have been thwarted by Last Week Tonight host John Oliver, who with the help of writer Jill Twiss has released his own Bundo book,...

A man attending Sunday’s Equality March in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania was allegedly assaulted by an anti-LGBTQ protester who showed up with an offensive sign and refused to leave. Tara Stark, an attendant at the march and volunteer at the LGBT Center of Central PA, told the York Dispatch that the man, whose sign read in part, “3rd world refugees brought drug resistant AIDS to the US last year,” stood on the steps of the state Capitol building near LGBTQ rights demonstrators. A...

An executive order from President Donald Trump opening up discrimination against the LGBTQ community on the basis of religious belief is expected sometime this week, possibly as soon as today. Several sources spoke with LGBTQ Nation on the condition of anonymity who have told us that the order will allow for discrimination in a number of areas, including employment, social services, business, and adoption. From what we’ve heard, the executive order could be far-reaching, and could include: making taxpayer funds available...